KPFA Weekend News Host Cameron Jones: Members of the Rwandan and Congolese Diaspora, and their supporters, traveled from a number of European countries to protest Rwandan President Paul Kagame's presence in France, at the invitation of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, on Monday, September 12th, in Paris. Five days later more members of the Rwandan and Congolese Diaspora in the U.S. met Kagame at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, where he was addressing an audience and signing a deal to build a Carnegie Mellon campus offering degrees in engineering and information technology in Rwanda. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story:

KPFA/Ann Garrison: That’s the sound of over 1,300 protestors most of them survivors of Rwandan and Congolese wars, chanting first “Assassin!!!”, French for assassin, then Genocidaire!!!”, French for person who commits or advocates genocide, during Monday’s Paris protest of French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s welcome to Kagame and Kagame’s presence in France. Spanish organizer Susana Sanz Guardo of Basta de Impunidad en Ruanda, said that the turnout, and the unity of Rwandan and Congolese people victimized by Kagame’s regime, was unprecedented, and that nothing will stop them now that they have lost their fear.

Five days later, on Friday, after short notice of Kagame’s visit to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, 50 protestors including Rwandan and Congolese survivors, gathered from around the U.S. to meet their supporters in Pittsburgh. This is a clip of Pittsburgh Channel 4 WTAE-TV’s coverage:

Channel 4 WTAE TV-Pittsburgh News Host: Well, the protest is underway right now on Forbes Avenue, across from University Center on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. About 50 people are over directing their efforts across traffic. Nearby the Rwandan President speaks inside the university center. Many of these people say they survived the 1994 genocide Rwandan President Paul Kagame is offering a keynote address, right now, on his country's strategy for growth in the global economy. Now we spoke with one man leading this protest against the university: